Abstract. Among popular cultural artifacts, video games represent an increasingly prevalent source of political thought, and Indigenous game designers have

Abstract. Did the Comanche and the Lakota constitute empires? The historian Pekka Hämäläinen has argued that they did during the eighteenth and nineteenth

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-25 Mark Shirk, Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order. New York: Columbia…

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 149 Andrew R. Hom. International Relations and the Problem of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780198850014 28…

Did I review another book? Why yes, yes I did.

New FF7 stories, an Elden Ring epic, Amnesia’s haunted history, canceled classics resurrected, and cocktails straight out of Diablo...game books have never gone this hard!

Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates

Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.

The Substack presence of The Duck of Minerva weblog. Covers International affairs in theory and practice, from an academic perspective. Click to read The Duck of Minerva, a Substack publication with h...

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I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is going to revolutionize higher education!”…

Hopes that AI will improve higher ed need to reckon with the dashed hopes of the past

AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi

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Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Relations (IR) scholarship since then has aim…

In this sweeping survey of approximately 12,000 years of human history, Barry Buzan aims to build theoretical bridges by making innovative use of well-worn

On Easter Monday, Pope Francis died at the age of 88. His passing marked the end of a 12-year papacy characterized by a commitment to the poor, an insistence on peace over posturing, and an often-controversial emphasis on mercy over rules. As white smoke issues from the Vatican--indicating a new pope has been chosen--most commentary has focused on familiar terrain: his views on women, LGBTQ+ rights, his political moderation, his Latin American identity, or his climate advocacy.

Kim sheds light on how anti-base activism in Korea and Japan disrupts U.S. basing politics, urging us to value the lives of those living near bases.

In Inadvertent Expansion, Nicholas D. Anderson investigates a surprisingly common yet overlooked phenomenon in the history of great power politics: territorial expansion that was neither intended nor....

Why the United States can’t buy technology.

Amid the annual deluge of end-of-year lists, I started to think about what readings generated the best classroom discussions I have overseen in the past calendar year. That list of readings is belo…

Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation

I wrote a chapter for a newly published edited volume, Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors. The volume itself, capably edited by Michael P.A. Murphy …

International Relations Theory (Section 53) The purpose of this section is to promote scholarship, mentoring, and teaching in International Relations